Bayonet Bonanza

[Peter Laidler]

The 3M is just a badly hit SM or a chipped stamp. If you bead blasted and phosphated the Mk2 bayonets (not the Mk2*'s) you could see where the hardening and tempering worked its way from the blade onto the socket part. So stamping the socket, which some nations were prone to do, could cause havoc to your number/letter stamps